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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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